Smyrna times., 1887-06-15

of Shopper acre.
The drawing for tents on Camden
Union Camp Ground will take place
Saturday afternoon next.
DR.. Knowles, editor of the Break
1OGter Light, has rented the Douglas
House at Rehoboth and will run it this
season.
Mrs. Rachel c. Whiteley, wife of DR..
Albert Whiteley, died suddenly at
Frederick Monday night, of pulmonary
apoplexy.
The tallest man in Delaware is at
present living in Delaware City. His
name is James Emory, and he meas
ures 6 feet, 9 inches.
Therose bug is making great havoc
in the Cumberland county n. j., peach
orchards. In some localities even the
fences are covered with them.
The PrOhibitionists of Newark and
the neighbOring communities will hold
a temperance jOlificatiOn on July 4, in
DOnnell's woods, near that town.
Chief Justice Comegys will deliver
his address on John NJ. Clayton before
the Scott Literary Society in the NJ. E.
church, on Monday evening, June goth.
Esquire Edmond Stout, agent for
VIM. Yeakle, has sold farm near Mag
OfSlO,OO0, to Samuel E. SaxtOn, of Colo
RADIO.
Delaware now has ten companies of
citizen sOldiery who are ready to do her
bidding, and the work of completing
the organization by hard drill in armory
now remains for them as an obligation
to the State.
The Saulsbury-Lo Wing of the
Democratic party are putting in some
strong licks now. There are said to be
only two Bayard-Gray men out ofnine-
teen Democrats in the City Council of
WilmingtOn.-RepubIican.
The Government contractors now at
work cleaning out and dredging Jones'
river or creek are fast approaching
Dover. When Dover is reached there
will be six feet of water in the creek at
low water as far south as Lebanon.
Thomas L. Clark, a house painter of
Wilmington, aged 40 years, committed
suicide Monday afternoon by taking a
dose of laudanum. A few years ago
Clark did thriving business, and was
worth over $1,000. He had been on a
spree.
Cards are out for the wedding of Will
liam Findlay Brown, of Philadelphia,
and Miss Julia Sohoonmaker, daughter
of DIR. Willets, of Louisville, Kentucky,
on the 18th inst. Mr.. Brown is the son
of the Hon. Charles Brown who died in
Dover few years ago.
The Peninsular Horticultural Society
has determined to offer a silver sweep
stakes cup for the best general exhibit
of fruit at the society,s exhibit at the
Opera House next autumn. T. Harri-
son Garrett of Baltimore, has donated
800 towards the expenses of the cup.
1t seems at last that the PENNSYLVANIA
Railroad is going to offer some little in
ducement for the city people to visit
RehobOth-that of making the fare
from Philadelphia and return, S4O0.
good only for three days. The regular
season excursion ticket is sold far IS 90.
ManlOve Hayes, corresponding secre-
tary of the State Board of Agriculture,
isil correspondence with the Depart.
mept of Agriculture at Washington with
the view ofhaving an expert entomOlO-
gist to visit Delaware to witness the raw
ages of the rOse-bug and suggest means
of preventing their increase.
The Episcopal and Presbyterian
churches of Georgetown have been
without pastors for the past three
months, the Methodist church being the
only one in which divine services have
been held. This does not speak very
we'll for the capitol of the county, with
a population of 9,0Q0.-DemOcrat.
A number of Philadelphia saloon.
keepers were in Wilmington on Satur.
day, says the EUe1y EUeRing, trying to
purchase licensed liquor saloons. They
complain that the license in the Ouak
eF city is so high and Mayor Filter 50
active in the discharge Of his duties that
there is no money in the retail liquor
business in that city.
The nineteen Democratic member.
of the city council of Wilmington in
caucus Monday night named J. Frank
Ball for city solicitor and ex-Council
man John NJ. Newell for city auditor
Ball has been city auditor for the last
six years. His competitor for the so
licitOr's Office was H. G. Turner. the
present incumbent. The council con
tai2s six Republicans.
Tho oooo,,,,tr ,e a. ..... . 4,
rose-bugs come up from almost ever,
quarter down the county. The amount
iamage they are doing is simply
~ OrmOus. They have destroyed The
I-um, cherry and grape crops wherever
they have been, and have ID many or
ehards seriously hurt peaches. 10
many neighbOrhoOds they have attacked
the raspberries and blackberries anC
destroyed the crop.
After a continued and unbroken ser
vice of eleven years Professor and Mrs
Wright Of the MiddletoWn Rubli
3chools, have rendered their resiana
tions to the Board of Education, to tax
effect at the close Of the present term
Mr.. Wright has been elected Principa
of the NOrridgewOck Institute at Soutl
NOrridgewOck, Maine, private inst
tuition and one which fits its student
for college and for teaching.
Writing from "The Levels" nea
MiddletGwp, in FegpOnse to Egery EUel
ilg!s inquiry as to the peach prospect
John +. Wilson says: "The prOspeC
for peaches west of MiddletOwn wi
not amount to One-fOurth of crop thi
year. There is considerable fruit Y,
on trees that did bear heavily last yea
and also a good quantity on few FIVE an
six years old orchards near the Dell
ware line in Cecil county, Md. Sass
fras Neck will be very short-Only fe
left in the lower part of the First di
trict.l
John the colored cripple who was a
Raulted ut the Sussex county almshous
on June 8, Is improving. The secon
blow he received knocked him sens
less. David NJ Pepper, who made I'll
assault and who in his madness kille
the old pauper, Samuel Barker, was d
Hicted with sun-stroke when IL yea
Of age. Since his marriage he sulIere
a second sun-stroke, and lately he ".
working in the sun at a work which r
quired a STOPPING posture, and this
believed to have affected him with h
dreadful craze.
DELAWARE COLLEGE. President
II. Caldwell, Of Delaware College Ne
ark, preached the baccalaureate 81
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